Motion Designer, Brand

Notion • San Francisco, CA

2d • $165,000 - $185,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role sits within the Creative Studio, a small team of designers, illustrators, copywriters, and filmmakers serving creative needs across the company. As our Brand Motion Designer, you'll lead motion-led projects from concept through storyboarding to final production, and build the motion systems that make animation a consistent part of how our brand shows up. We're looking for someone who approaches motion as a communication tool and can take complex concepts and make them clear, concise, and memorable.

Requirements

• 6+ years of motion design experience in an agency or in-house creative team, with a portfolio that shows range across brand, product, and narrative work.
• Deep fluency in After Effects and Figma. You've worked on UI and character animation, not just video.
• Strong pre-production craft: concepting, scripting, and storyboarding ideas into clear motion beats.
• Clear, proactive communication. You can present work to non-designers and bring people along with your creative rationale.
• Genuine curiosity about where the tools are going. You're exploring Rive, Jitter, Cavalry, or generative AI in order to expand what's possible.
• You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Nice To Haves

• You have live action or illustration skills.
• You’ve built tools, templates, or workflows that enable non-motion-designers to work with animation confidently.

Responsibilities

• Lead motion work from concept through production — brand campaigns, product launches, social content, event visuals, and explainer films.
• Collaborate with our video team, designers, and cross-functional partners to develop video and film projects that advance the brand.
• Build and extend motion design systems: principles, behaviors, and templates that others can use and build on.
• Translate dense concepts into short, clear stories that a broad audience can understand and remember.
• Raise the bar for motion across the company. Review work, mentor teammates, and bring a strong point of view about how animation serves communication.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees